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Kyle Chalmers Coach Peter Bishop The Shock Appointment As The New Head Coach Of Dutch National Team In a shock move, celebrated Australian coach Peter Bishop – the man behind the career of Australia’s Olympic freestyle sprint king Kyle Chalmers – has been appointed as the new head coach of the Dutc....

Worldwide Search For Olympic Medal Winning Coach To Spearhead Sydney University Performance Centre New South Wales sporting administrators are confident of attracting a high profile Olympic medal winning coach to spearhead its latest high performance collaboration with Sydney University. The Sydne.....

The waters have been smoothed and peace has been restored in the corridors of power at Swimming Australia – and its back to the business of what really matters - trying to win more gold medals than the U.S. at the next Olympics in Los Angeles. Latest CEO, two-time Olympian Rob Woodhouse, has delive....

Olympic Champion Zac Stubblety-Cook To Join Adam Peaty’s Coach Mel Marshall On The Gold Coast Australia’s Olympic champion breaststroker Zac Stubblety-Cook has revealed he will link with celebrated British Olympic coach Mel Marshall on the Gold Coast as he kick-starts the next chapter of his career....

Rookie Queensland Butterflyer Harrison Turner Rewarded With Dolphins Call Up For World Short Course Championships Brisbane-based Nudgee College 20-year-old Harrison Turner will make his international debut at the Budapest World Short Course (SC) Championship from December 10-15 after being called i....

Kaylee McKeown Announces Surprise Withdrawal from World Short Course Championships; World Cups Remain on Schedule Kaylee McKeown has announced her surprising withdrawal from December’s World Short Course Championships in Budapest, just four days after the 24-strong Dolphins team had been announced.....

McKeown Magic Adds Midas Touch To Australia Dolphins Team  For Budapest World Short Course Championships Australian Olympic golden girl Kaylee McKeown will headline 12 Paris Olympians who will fill half of the 24-strong Australian Dolphins Swim Team for the  World Short Course Championships in Buda....

Isaac Cooper Pops 20.81 50 Freestyle Screamer As Australia Names 24-Strong Dolphins Team for Budapest SC Worlds Queensland’s dual Olympian Isaac Cooper has sizzled down the SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre in Adelaide faster than any other human in that part of the world, clocking 20.81 in the 50 free....

Kaylee McKeown Agonizingly Close to Second WR in 50 Backstroke at Aussie Short Course Champs World beating Australian backstroker Kaylee McKeown has gone within a whisker of her second world record in Adelaide tonight – missing by almost the barest of margins – swimming 0.15secs outside the 50m sho....

Australian Short Course Champs Day 2: With Kaylee McKeown Away, Iona Anderson Comes Out To Play In 200m Backstroke With Kaylee McKeown sitting out day two of the Australian Short Course Championships it was over to rookie Paris Olympian, Iona Anderson to make the most of the absence of swimming’s .....

Aussie Young Gun Ed Sommerville Charges To SCM 200 Free National Record, Sixth Fastest In History Queensland teenager Ed Sommerville has recovered from a dislocated shoulder to set a new Australian record in Adelaide overnight, securing a place on the Australian team for the December World Champion....

FLASH: Kaylee McKeown Shatters 100 Backstroke World Record at Aussie Short Course Champs Australian swimming’s “Miss Unstoppable” Kaylee McKeown has tonight continued her world record backstroking assault, setting a new short course global mark in the 100m backstroke in Adelaide, clocking a time of....

Australian Short Course Championships: Unstoppable Kaylee McKeown Preparing To Set Record Straight It has been a spectacular eight years since Kaylee McKeown first made an appearance on the international swimming scene as a 15-year-old from Queensland on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The kid sister.....

Australian SC Championships: Backstroking Golden Girl Kaylee McKeown Returns To Racing In Adelaide En-Route To Budapest Backstroking golden girl Kaylee McKeown will headline 13 members of Australia’s Paris Olympic team when they return to racing at this month’s Australian Short Course Championships....

All Go For Glasgow Following Multi-Million Dollar Rescue Mission For 2026 Commonwealth Games A multi-million-dollar injection of funds negotiated by Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA) has given 2014 hosts Glasgow the green light to host “the lost Games" of 2026 - saving the multi-sport event from o....

Andrew "Boy"Charlton, Kieren Perkins And Priya Cooper Inducted Into Swimming Australia Hall Of Fame Olympic 1500m freestyle legends, Manly’s pioneering powerhouse Andrew “Boy” Charlton and Queensland “Superfish” Kieren Perkins with WA’s Paralympic golden girl Priya Cooper have today been unveiled a....

Kaylee McKeown and Tim Hodge Claim Top Gongs At Swimming Australia Awards. Two of Australia’s gold medal standouts of Paris 2024, Kaylee McKeown and Tim Hodge have been rewarded for their monumental campaigns, taking out the top gongs at today’s Swimming Australia Awards in Brisbane. McKeown was n.....

Paralympics: Emotions Overflow for Australian Gold Medal Winners Ben Hance, Callum Simpson A golden day for Australia and one filled with emotion with Ben Hance dedicating his back-to-back backstroking win to his late father and rookie schoolboy Callum Simpson overcome with tears of joy as Australi....

Paralympic Games, Day 8: Australia’s Tim Hodge Achieves 'Impossible' with Golden Finish In Paris For the past three years Tim Hodge has been a man on a mission and today in Paris, the boy from Blacktown in Western Sydney (NSW) achieved his lifelong dream – Paralympic gold – Australia’s fourth in wh....

Swimming Australia Sacks Paris Olympic Team Coach Michael Palfrey for being “Un Australian” Australian swim coach Michael Palfrey, the man at the centre of comments made supporting a South Korean athlete during the Paris Olympics, has been sacked. Swimming Australia today confirmed Palfrey’s immed.....